(this was taken with a very old iphone thatwas given to me, which i cannot use as a phonebut do enjoy playing with. Elegant, if ungainly Phyllis is a Philadelphus x virginalis 'Natchez' and featuresvery large blossoms.)

Louis, the chief gardener at Greenwood(otherwise known as the Director of Horticulture)will be leading a workshop where he will helpfolks plant an "early spring bulb bowl"and this little sweetieis just one of the bulbs that jumped the gun inall that warm winter weather we've experienced.So he popped it into one of the teeny tinyterracotta potlets that he uses for propagating minute thingsand set it on the potting shed window sill.\Because we all end up thereseveral times a day.

opened last week with violets, clover and grass.When they first appear i have to smile.i especially enjoy looking over at the neighbor's front gardenwhere he has let them be.Each spring he mows before they go to seedand now a nice constellation in a sea of rich green fills that corner of the block.